The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-12-08

creature GHdG Wr1IeS pIayS- CoHVlHceu
Saphir that his peculiar form of hu-
NOR was not likely to have fair play
where Count Granow welded the CEN
sor's pencil. So he removed to Mum
ich, where, in 1S2S-29, he published
the Bazaar He was also converted
to Professionalism, and was made Hof-
ater-Intendant. But he soon got
into trouble again, and this time with
more important parsonage than
Press-censor. King Ludwig was ad-
dcted to writing bad verse and MAX
ing bad jokes, and Saphir did not hes
itate to express very freely his opin-
ion as to the quality Of both It would
not do to punish the critic for this,
but his sins were laid up against him;
and when he ventured subsequently
to make SOME remarks about the no.
torious Lola Montez, he received a per.
emptory order to quit the Bavarian
capital within four-and-twenty hours.
The Court chamberlain, commissioned
by the King, waited on him, and asked
if he could manage to get away in so
short a time. YES" said the una
Dashed journalist, "aEd if my own legs
can't take me quickly enough, I'll bor-
row some Of the superhuous feet in
his Majesty's last volume of verse"
He never forgot his expulsion from
Munich. When, one day some one
congratulated him on his erect car
riage and walk, he remarked he had
had good master of department;
king Ludwig had taught him to step
out" He went to Vienna in 1885,
and after becoming Catholic, started
the Humorist, the chief organ of its
kind in Germany, with which he was
connected until his death in 1850. Sa-
phir was voluminous writer, and his
'sDumme Briefe" and Album fur
Witt und Humor" are never-failing
sources upon which his imitators to
this day draw. His works are not
much read by the general public, de-
spite their undoubted brilliancy and
humor, and the extraordinary "word-
play" in which they abound. He Vas
deficient in depth and lacked the Gre
ative gadfy of true genius that stings
to the highest form of literary express
sion; and it is for the good things he
said and the odd things he did, that be
is chiefly remembered by his country
men and his sometime co-religionists.
Innumerable are the anecdotes told
of him. A few culled from the col
lections of 'Saphiriana,' published in
Germany, are characteristic, and we'll
illustrate the readiness Of his wit and
the peculiar form Of humor for which
he was noted Jerrman, his colleague
on the Hatmorist, often asked him to
dinner; but as Madame Jermann was
reputed to be one of the meanest wo-
men in the capital, the humorist gen.
orally managed to excuse himself. At
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acceptance. The dinner consisted, as
| he had anticipated, of more table cloth
than meat, and Saphir, who was big
man with proportionate appetite,
rose from table as hungry as he had
sat down. As he was taking lis leave,
the hostess came up to him, and play
fully tapping on the shoulder with
her fan, said, And now, Herr Saphir,
when will you dine with me again ?"
s'At once, Madame Jerrman, at once"
responded the hungry wit in his deep
est bass. The old Rothschild, at an
evening gathering, requested Saphir
to write something in his autograph
book, but it was to be characteristic.
In two minutes the fnancier received
the volume back with the following
entry: "Oblige me, Dear Baron, with
the loan of 10000 gulden; and Forget
For ever after, your obedient servant,
M. G.. Saphir.' The man of money
saw the point of the joke, and paid
generously for the humorist's sigma
ture. Equally brief was the retort he
made to some one against whom he
accidentally knocked when turning
to corner Of a street in Munich.
Beast" cried the offended person,
without waiting for an apol-
ogy. "Thank you,' said the journal
ist, land mine is Saphir." ;" Cosmar, a
relative of the bookseller, was an am
ateur author who thought a good deal
more Of himself than the public could
be persuaded to think. Meeting Sa-
phir in mixed company, he made the
silly remark that Saphir twas Jew
who wrote for money, while he wrote
for fame" "Quite so, remarked the
wit; 1--WE each write for what we lack
and need" His friend Jerrman was
always warning him about getting
into debt, for he was very careless in
money matters, and explaining the
advantages to be derived from paying
cash for everything. Once he wound
up his usual caution with the remark
that making debts ruined many a
man." "Oh, mol" responded Saphir;
Its paying them that does the mis-
chief" When introduced for the first |
time to the prompter of the Leipziger
Stadt-The ater, pompous parsonage
too much in evidence at times, Saphir
remarked, II heard a good deal of you,
Herr A." The prompter bowed
his Acknowledgements of the expected